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.....or, Yikes ! I'd better get busy esplainin' stuff, cuz I forgot I had scanned these in and people found them....

Anyhoo, this is the stupendously magnificent japanese? chinese? cherry? berry tree, that lived in front of my parents house. Each year it got more and more huge-r and glorious-er. If you stood on the deck, you would be totally enveloped in these big, puffy, clusters of blossoms...and then, when "peak" was peaked and those 'clear-the-air' spring breezes came....we would be privy to the most funnest of pink snowstorms.

Alas, the house and the tree are no longer with us. When my folks left the Cape, we eventually had to make the decision to sell their house. On a pre-market inspection, we noticed that there seemed to be some moisture in the basement. Long story short...one of the main reasons for this beloved tree's gloriosity, was the fact that it had 'eaten' a brand new septic pipe and was feeding off.....oh, everything....We laughed, we cried, we chopped down the damn tree. Harsh,,,,peut-etre.

Still...every spring, I haul out the pictures and imagine pink snowstorms.

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